For most apps, that's ./configure, make, sudo make install, so that
part shouldn't be a problem.

Having a standard way to distribute binaries for various operating
systems would be excellent, too.

From a user's prospective, it's not necessarily binary binary
distribution that satisfies users. Users want something unified, easy to
operate, and doesn't fail (much), if source code distribution can
reaches this, it's as good as binary distribution. We had so much binary
distribution to uses because on non-gnustep systems compiling can be so
problematic that fails very easily. Furthermore shipping source ease
GPLv3 compatibility.

I do believe users are not even bothered if they see: "configure in
progress. Trying to adapt the software to your system's environment",
"making" and "installing", as long as they can get what they wanted.
Especially because various apps I tried are mostly rather small,
wouldn't take too long to compile.

No I don't mean to recommend distributing source, I just want to make a
point binary distribution is not a criteria of defining a good package
manager.

Ink.app has an excellent name, it implies writing. Project Center.app
has a good name (although it might get confused with a non-IDE project
management application).

Split the topic a bit, what is the role difference between Ink and
TextEdit? I just tried TextEdit (attracted by the name obviously a text
editor and by the fact it's mentioned on wikipedia's gnustep page) and
found it offered most basic RTF editing feature with a lot of failures.
Since this list is not about complaining non-gnustep application, I'll
only go this far mentioning it.

I think the most reasonable name is Warehouse. Here are a few more
derivatives that sounds better than the ones I mentioned before:

GNUstep Warehouse
GNUstep Packages
GNUstep Apps

GNUstep Installer (maybe not -- a dedicated installer similar to what
Apple has with their pkg might make better use of this)

I have an addition to name candidates, "source". This isn't really
cryptic to users, see how much the concept is used in pop-culture. The
name is fancy and modern. But on the other hand it confuses developers.

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Quite off topic again, and I am still talking under umbrella of Riccardo
Mottola that anything gnu-step related can be discussed, hope I don't
get more hatred this time.

We are developers, we are product builders (no, I am not, but I just try
to get into the developer's thinking), thus it's very easy to correlate
a new problem to a new product.

The typical thinking is pretty linear, like a hammer to a nail.
[PROBLEM] -----> need a solution -----> [a new product]

Now let's think again, the end user distribution doesn't have to be
solved by a product. I just list a few possible solutions, from a user's
head:

* A well designed website that competes attention well, become entry
point of user's finding software. Other people can comment and
rate the software. sf.net mode.
* A quality assurance branding. Let's say we develop GAP from an
application building entity to a quality assurance entity and
having GAP certificated. I mentioned GAP because it was said to be
doing the best in the years. Packages must mention in their first
line of description if the product is GAP certificated.
* Or a mixture solution: in case co-operation is difficult to
establish, GAP work on its own, renaming every package to
gap-something. If organizational power can hold (now GAP is only
mostly one or two person working) it will develop so that users
always prefer to install gap-something. I know the other serious
implication that happens with renaming package, please let me
spark before killing ideas, that holding of judgment is necessary
for incubating creative ideas.

I am sure there are other ideas to deliver good products to the users
too (app store, live-cd with only select goods on it to emphasize
selection, 'green software' label as used in Windows applications,
"0-day way" as in pirate branding, and many others). Just to call to
think expanding ideas first and focus on methods second.

By comparison in a commercial world a single product is almost never the
solution, it's an action. Usually a solution is formed with many other
actions (e.g. marketing actions) put together.